Posted on 12/25/2010 6:56:51 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
June?
Merry Christmas!
We're down in the south end of the county, near the mighty Pajaro. I lived on the banks of the San Lorenzo for the storm of January 1982. The banks were submerged to within about 2 inches of our front door for that one. All our neighbors had the river indoors. I don't think this storm is going to approach that one. That was something like 17 inches in 24 hours.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Homer
Merry Christmas to you and Cody and all your family.
Isn't government and business monopolies a sign of fascism?I know of people forbidden to use the natural power of a stream flowing through their property because ALL hydropower generation was "lawfully" reserved to the utility companies.Face it ,everyone;the big corporations HATE freedom just as much as any other would -be dictator.
Good story on the slave reunion. Looks like the Germans are again trying to hold out an olive branch to the British.
You are a true treasure on FR........Merry Christmas to you and yours...and a heart felt thanks for these postings.
Mick
There was another story a few weeks or months ago concerning a utility customer that paid a judgment to a utility in cash. A reader thought it sounded like the customer was making a protest by complying in that way. It think that one was in Tennessee. Big Electricity apparantly had learned to throw its weight around by 1940.
Oh, I get plenty of rest. In fact, since I do the morning post before I have my coffee you could say I do it in my sleep. Just the same, thank you for your very kind words. What a nice Christmas present!
And thanks to all of you who stop by to read these old articles and share your own special knowledge about the lives and times they cover.
I hope you all had a blessed Christmas and I wish you all peace and prosperity in the coming year. Let's hope that 2011 will be less interesting than 1941.
Whosoever grasps the intimate meaning of the Christmas hymn and has tasted even one drop of the sweet nectar of the truth of love which it contains knows where, amidst the confused succession of events, sufferings and trials of these tempestuous days he may find a haven of safety, and he will refrain as much from undue optimism, which disregards reality, as from the still less apostolic tendency toward cowardly depressing pessimism.
Pius XII
Christmas 1940
FDR was big on “rural electrification” through projects such as the TVA. But as with every American big-government program, the special interests of private industry got theirs first. The power companies submitted to Federal and state regulation, including that of their rates, in exchange for “legal monopolies,” a fiction which endures to this day.
Of course, the rates are set by a government rate commission (in Indiana, it is the IURC; Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission). They are pretty much in bed with the utilities. On the other hand, if you want to oppose what they want to do, you have to go to the Citizens Action Coalition, which is pretty much an ACORN-type left-wing group beholden to the environmental whackos.
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